Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese is an American director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and film historian, whose career spans more than 53 years. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict. Many of his films are also notable for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 November 1942
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
We've seen growing awareness of film preservation, yet the deterioration and eventual disappearance of films have not come to an end. There's still a race against the clock to save what we can at some point.
We can't keep thinking in a limited way about what cinema is. We still don't know what cinema is. Maybe cinema could only really apply to the past or the first 100 years, when people actually went to a theater to see a film, you see?
You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
I'm re-energized by being around people who mean a lot to me.
The reality is, if I don't do PR, I'm hurting the picture. And as many things as I did, that's as many things as I turned down.
Watching Dylan's eyes as he searches for these words, you see it all happening there,
We couldn't have cared less about the government, especially the city government, which produced policemen who did nothing but take graft.
Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence?
I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.
You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.